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back in a moment. >> ros ross douthat is here, he joined the "new york tes" op-ed ge this spng. coming its youngest lumnist inver at the age of 29years d. he was formerly a senior edir and blogger at the aantic magazine. he's the co-author of the book "the grand new party, h republicancan win theorking class ansave the amerin drm." i am pleased toave him at this stable for the rst time. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: we'll talk about the ok first then isss i potics. in the rublican party can win the working class like ronald reagan won the workinglass-- so-called reagan democrats-- >> right. >> rose: they can be an ascendant? >> they can, y. >> rose: what they have to do to win the wking class? >> they ve to do basically the same thing that they did in the 1970s andarly 1980s when reagan won the working class. which is to s they nd to ha an agenda and especially domeic policy agenda that focused the particular ises that rlly hit home for middle erica. you look back to the... i guess we can call it the original republican majority, because whatever republin majority existin the